Home Assistant with Cloud Integration

Abstract

Home Assistant wasn’t born out of ideology. I built it because I got some smart lights and wanted to script them. I made that script open source and it went from there. As Home Assistant has grown, so has the world around us, and so have I.A lot of IoT products have been introduced since Home Assistant started. Sadly, the trend in these products is to send all data to the cloud and manage your house from there. I’ve come to realize that it’s not in the big corporations interest to make a product that focuses on privacy and local control. Our data is too useful for them.

I don’t like this trend. I don’t like seeing more and more of our data being hoarded by a few giant companies, centralizing it in a few systems and using it to influence how we’ll be treated online. It’s our lives, our data, and we should be in control. Not some algorithm optimized for engagement.And so I want to introduce a goal for Home Assistant. A goal that will shape how the platform will evolve in the upcoming years.One major advantage of Home Assistant with Cloud Integration System Project is that it’s not dependent on cloud services. Even if you’re only using Home Assistant on a local network, you should take steps to secure your instance.

Challenges with the Internet of Things
● More and more smart devices in homes without a common standard.
○ Some use WiFi to connect to their own cloud.
○ Some talk one of the many home automation protocols.
● Each device comes with own app.
○ No single place of control.
○ No automation across different products.
● Hubs try to solve this.